"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

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"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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